ASEAN International Mobility for Students (AIMS) Programme at De La Salle University The ASEAN International Mobility for Students (AIMS) Programmeseeks to create a dynamic student mobility program forSoutheast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO)member countries.

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Fields of study under theDLSU AIMS Programme:Business, Engineeringand Economics

Partner Countries:Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand,

Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, Japan

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NUMBERTHE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF

DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY

2401 (twen´te fôr´,o, wun) is a landmark number along Taft Avenue. It is the location ID of De La Salle University, home to outstanding faculty and students, and birthplace of luminaries in business, public service, education, the arts, and science. And 2401 is the name of the official newsletter of DLSU, featuring developments and stories of interest about the University.

F A C T S a n d F I G U R E S

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De La Salle University recently lauched the Cirilo F. Bautista Program for Literary

Arts, named in honor of the 2014 National Artist for Literature and DLSU Professor

Emeritus.

The announcement was made last March 19 at the DLSU Henry Sy, Sr. Hall, during

a special tribute for him that also coincided with the launching of his new book,

DLSU launches Cirilo F. Bautista Program for Literary Arts

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University links with global leader in Business Process

Management Training

Workshop with Osaka University highlights latest computational techniques

DITECH 2015 promotes eco-innovation

Eco-challenges seek less carbon footprint

Photo shows (front row, from left) CLA Dean Dr. Julio Teehankee, VCA Dr. Myrna Austria, National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista, National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera, and National Artist for Music Ramon Santos. At the back are University Fellows, administrators, and professors.

Source: External Relations and Internationalization Office

Rosemann

Photo Credit: michaelrosemann.com

University links with global leader in Business Process Management Training To help organizations stay relevant and resilient in the age

of digitization, De La Salle University entered into partnership

with the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane,

Australia to establish the globally renowned Business Process

Management (BPM) Training in the Philippines.

The launch of the BPM Training last March 13 at the Asian

Institute of Management Conference Center featured a talk by

Professor Michael Rosemann, Head of School of Information

Systems of QUT. His talk was entitled, “A Digital Mind -

Disruptive Thinking in a Connected World.”

QUT’s Business Process Management Discipline is one of the

largest BPM research groups in the world. Rosemann helped

establish three industry-funded Chairs in the Information

Systems School, i.e. the Woolworths Chair in Retail Innovation,

the Brisbane Airport Corporation Chair in Airport Innovation, and

the PwC Chair in Digital Economy.

Rosemann’s main contributions are the concepts of a series

of innovation patterns, value-driven BPM, customer process

management, BPM as a service, a BPM maturity model,

guidelines of business process modelling, configurable reference

models, ambidextrous BPM and context-aware BPM.

To align itself with the academic communities in the region,

De La Salle University takes part in the ASEAN International Mobility

for Students (AIMS) Programme starting August this year.

The AIMS Programme seeks to create a dynamic student mobility

program for Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization

member countries. Initiated in 2009 as the Malaysia, Indonesia,

and Thailand (M-I-T) Student Mobility Project, other countries from

Southeast Asia have joined the efforts of M-I-T to collectively develop

a regional student mobility program.

Japan has also joined the AIMS Programme. In the Philippines, there

are 12 partner universities participating in the said program.

Starting next academic year, DLSU AIMS Programme will offer

courses from the RVR College of Business, Gokongwei College

of Engineering, and the School of Economics. Foreign students may

choose up to eight courses equivalent to 24 units, upon approval of

the AIMS Coordinator and Dean of the college or school.

DLSU students, on the other hand, may study in 27 partner

universities in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei

Darussalam, and Japan in the following fields: International Business,

Economics, and Engineering.

DLSU participates in ASEAN student mobility program

Cirilo F. Bautista from page 1

---St. John Baptist de La Salle

Enkindle the love of Jesus in the hearts of the young.

De La Salle University holds this year’s “No Impact Experiment,”

a weeklong carbon cleanse program aimed at reducing the

community’s impact to the environment through awareness and

performing simple acts, from March 23 to 29.

Program organizers include the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing

Center, the Campus Sustainability Office, the College of Liberal Arts

Research and Advanced Studies Office, and the Office of the Vice

Chancellor for Research and Innovation, in partnership with the Asian

Development Bank’s Redraw the Line project.

During the course of the week, participants are tasked with specific

themes and sustainability challenges such as going paperless,

eating healthy, or taking public transport instead of driving a personal

vehicle.

Other complementary activities include: the Kapwa Kalikasan: Nature

as Person and Fellow Being Round-table Discussion, the TRIPDA

Car Pooling Orientation, the Conversations and Confrontations

Conference with Dr. Ann Pegelow Kaplan, the 3rd DLSU Innovation

and Technology Fair, Nature in Print book exhibit, Training for

Birdwatching Tour at the DLSU STC Campus, and Eco Fair.

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Workshop with Osaka University highlights latest computational techniques

DITECH 2015 promotes eco-innovation

The Computational Materials Design (CMD) Asia Philippines, an

organization composed of faculty members and students from

De La Salle University and collaborators from Osaka University in

Japan, hosted the 7th Asian CMD Workshop held last March 19-

21 at the Milagros del Rosario Building of the DLSU Science and

Technology Complex in Laguna.

With the theme, “Strengthening the Nanotechnology Research

in the Philippines through Computational Techniques,” the

workshop featured lectures by professors from the two universities,

particularly on various computational software to study phenomena

occurring in materials in nano- and atomic scale levels, aimed at

elucidating their physical, electronic, chemical, mechanical, and

deteriorative properties.

The results are applied in wider applications, such as fuel cells,

spintronics, bio-sensors, solar cells, and recently in medical

sciences.

CMD Asia Philippines conducts researches that implement

Computational Materials Design in order to predict and elucidate

the properties and behavior of materials by theoretical modeling or

computer simulation from a fundamental perspective.

The group is part of the CMD® Asia Network whose member

institutions include Osaka University (Japan), DLSU (Philippines),

Mahidol University (Thailand), Hanoi University of Science (Vietnam),

and Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia).

With the theme “Green Innovations for a Sustainable Future,” the 3rd

DLSU Innovation and Technology (DITECH) Fair aims to support the

country’s sustainable development goals through research.

The DITECH Fair this March 26-27 at the DLSU Henry Sy, Sr. Hall

addresses ten main goals: contribute to finding solutions to end

extreme poverty; achieve economic development; ensure effective

learning that will generate work and livelihood; achieve gender

equality, social inclusion, and human rights for all; achieve health

and wellbeing; improve agricultural systems; empower cities; curb

In its continuing efforts to better serve the Lasallian community,

the Libraries announced that a self-checkout machine is now

available during regular service hours at the Filipiniana, 12F of The

Learning Commons. This service allows library patrons to borrow

books on their own by scanning the items on the machine using

their DLSU ID.

To use the self-checkout machine, the borrower simply taps the

“Borrow Items” button indicated on the machine, then scans the

ID or keys in ID number. After this, he/she scans the barcode of

the book, located at the inside back cover of the material, then

taps “Finish.” The borrower receives a transaction receipt.

Consistent with over-the-counter service, books and other library

materials classified as “Room Use Only”, “Lib Use Only”, and “On

Hold”, cannot be checked out for home reading.

For further information and assistance, contact Vivian Soriente,

Filipiniana Librarian, at local 262 or email library@dlsu.edu.ph.

Things Happen Poems 2012, published by the University of

Santo Tomas.

Announcing the establishment of the literary program, Vice

Chancellor for Academics Dr. Myrna Austria said that a seed

fund of one million pesos has been allocated by the University

to support both professional and budding writers of poetry,

essay, and fiction. Literary grantees will be chosen annually.

Chancellor Emeritus Dr. Carmelita Quebengco delivered the

opening remarks, and Br. Bernard Oca FSC, De La Salle

Santiago Zobel School president, the remarks of circumstance.

His fellow National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera and

National Artist for Music Ramon Santos graced the occasion.

Described as a Renaissance man, Bautista is a poet, fictionist,

painter, literary critic, and educator. At DLSU, he was honored

as a member of the elite group of University Fellows. He spent

33 years of teaching in the University, retiring in 2006.

The tribute for Bautista featured a poetry reading by eminent

writers Gemino Abad, Alice Sun Cua, Carlomar Arcangel

Daoana, Marjorie Evasco, Dinah Roma, and Alfred Yuson. An

open forum with the writer, hosted by journalist Lito Zulueta,

culminated the event.

The event was organized by the Department of Literature, the

Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center, and the College

of Liberal Arts.

Eco-challenges seek less carbon footprint

Wear your ANIMO!

human-induced climate change and ensure sustainable energy;

secure ecosystem services and biodiversity; ensure good

management of water and other natural resources; and transform

governance for sustainable development.

Highlights of the DITECH Fair include talks from outstanding

science and technology researchers from DLSU, as well as an

exhibit of collaborative, multidisciplinary projects at the 4th floor of

the Henry Sy, Sr. Hall.

Members of the Lasallian community are encouraged to take

part in the experiment and rise to the challenge of safeguarding

the health of the planet and the wellbeing of the diverse species

living on the Earth today.

Book borrowing thru self-checkout machine

Merchandise

Bring color to your identity with the new DLSU ID lanyards!

Available at The Store, located at the 2nd floor of Enrique Razon

Sports Center and at the West Wing Basement of Milagros del

Rosario Building, Science and Technology Complex.

Both branches are open from Monday to Friday (8:00 am

to 5:00 pm) and Saturday (8:00 am to 12:00 noon).

Proceeds go to the DLSU Scholarship Programs.

A student of the DLSU Gokongwei College of Engineering,

Kristian Lawrence Caringal, was named as the Most

Outstanding Civil Engineering Student of the Philippines 2014

by the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE).

Caringal is under the ladderized program BS/MS in Civil

Engineering with specialization in Structural Engineering. He

was recognized for excellence in academic performance,

leadership, community service, and knowledge regarding

the topic “How to utilize technological innovations to further

improve the infrastructure in the Philippines as a future Civil

Engineer”. The awarding was held during the PICE 40th

National Convention last November 13 at the Ibalong Centrum

for Recreation, Legazpi City, Albay.

PICE is an organization accredited by the Professional

Regulation Commission of the Philippines, composed of

more than 74,000 registered CE members in 96 chapters and

some 46,646 CE student members in 170 student chapters

throughout the country.

PHL’s Most Outstanding Civil Engineering Student